Have you ever been to a McDonald’s outlet in the UK and ordered a bottle of Tropicana Orange Juice?   I have been doing so for as long as I can remember and have always been disappointed.  Not because the OJ was bad but because I always managed to drink my way through the little bottle of juice much faster than I expected.  Until recently I attributed this anomaly to the salted fries ‘on the side’ making me extra thirsty.

It wasn’t until I went to Tesco the other day and purchased a bottle of Tropicana that I realized McDonalds were not selling a standard 330ml bottle of Tropicana that we have all come to know and love but a smaller 250ml bottle of juice.

To top it off, McDonald’s is charging a whopping £1.29 (about $2.57) for the smaller bottle whereas the good people over at Tesco are selling the larger bottle containing an extra 80ml of juice for £0.98 pence.

If this isn’t enough, McDonald’s offer just one size of Orange Juice bottle meaning that Medium and Large sized meals are ’served’ with the same size of OJ drink while the sizes of the other soft drinks like Coke etc are larger with the bigger meals.

On McDonald’s ‘Make Up Your Own Mind’ website a customer inquiries about the above issue and McDonald’s respond stating:

Are McDonald’s implying in this response that Tropicana will only supply them with a 250ml ’standard’ size when I’ve highlighted above that Tesco can source a 330ml bottle and retail it for 31 pence less than the McDonald’s standard?

This is just another example of corporate greed on the part of Mc Donald’s so please take a few moments of your time to write to McDonald’s Customer Services about this issue and visit your local McDonald’s and talk to the manager or franchisee.  Print this blog post and take it with you and/or send it to McDonald’s.  It is about time that McDonald’s respond to the wants of their customers because right now, we’re not “lovin’ it”.